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ORACLE 10g STUNS NSE.IT IN BETA TEST PHASE

GRID, WEB SERVICES STANDARDS TO CONVERGE

SOFTWARE FUTURE DEPENDS ON INDUSTRY STANDARDS

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition
to focus on the emerging market for commercial business
applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers

We are looking for high-level speakers from
commercial organizations to speak on
applications and implementation of Grid computing

Special Features

GRID, WEB SERVICES STANDARDS TO CONVERGE

The new WS-Notification and WS-Resource Framework represent the first time a common, standards-based infrastructure will be available for business applications, Grid resources and systems management.

INDIA PLANS GRID FACILITIES FOR BIO-INFORMATICS

According to its annual plan requirements for 2004-05 submitted to the Planning Commission recently, DIT has stated that the government needs to invest for positioning India as the preferred bio-informatics destination in the world.

THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS
By Rolf McClellan And Jim Metzler

Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from GRIDtoday by two noted IT analysts. Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer industry, and Jim Metzler is a principal in Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a company that focuses on leveraging technology for business success.

EU STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF INTERNET PROTOCOL IPv6 FOR GRID

Erkki Liikanen, a member of the European Commission responsible for enterprise and the information society, stressed the importance of Internet protocol IPv6 Jan. 16 in Brussels, Belgium.

ORACLE 10g STUNS IN BETA TEST

NSE.IT, the first beta-test users of Oracle 10g in India, have embarked on an extensive testing phase running since the last four months, which has delivered extremely promising results.

Systems/Enterprise

DataSynapse SEES THIRD YEAR OF TRIPLED REVENUE GROWTH

DataSynapse Inc announced highlights of its year-to-date worldwide success, including prestigious customer wins, industry awards, new business partners and tripled revenue growth.

OTTAWA FIRM OFFERS UTILITY MODEL TO SEMICONDUCTOR FIRMS

GridWay Computing Corp, which calls itself Ottawa's first commercial computing utility, announced this week that it will open a data center in the capital city to provide chip designers with pay-as-you-go computing capacity.

InfoVista WINS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AWARD FOR GIG-BE

InfoVista has been awarded a one year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract by Juniper Networks to provide the performance management solution for edge and core IP/MPLS routers for the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Global Information Grid -- Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) Program.

SUN INSTITUTES HPTC ALLIANCE PARTNER PROGRAM

These new industry alliances can immediately benefit many performance-hungry HPTC customers using clusters and Grids to support large-scale scientific and exploratory projects.

SUN ENHANCES NETWORK SERVICES INTEGRATION INTO BLADE PLATFORM

Sun Microsystems Inc announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nauticus Networks, a company whose technologies provide a high-performance content-switch -- including SSL, security, load-balancing and virtualization.

TenFold ANNOUNCES WEB SERVICES STRATEGY

Microsoft and IBM are strong proponents of Web Services and are backing their endorsement with hundreds of millions of marketing dollars to establish Web Services as a new industry standard.

VERITAS ANNOUNCES KEY BUILDING BLOCK FOR UTILITY COMPUTING

VERITAS OpForce 3.2 software dramatically increases the utilization of existing IT environments by intelligently provisioning resources such as servers across computer networks.

Applications

NEW GRID DESKTOP TOOL MAKING FLOOD PREDICTION EASIER

The desktop already is used to manage a new breed of distributed computing applications that the Grid infrastructure makes possible -- in biomedics, in flood prevention, in pollution forecasting and in computation-heavy physics.

DataSynapse ANNOUNCES GRIDSERVER ENHANCEMENTS

The new capabilities go beyond traditional compute-intense Grids to drive quantifiable benefits in application processing speed, resiliency, scalability and time-to-build and deploy.

SOFTWARE FUTURE DEPENDS ON INDUSTRY STANDARDS

In a recently conducted survey by IDC, 70 percent of respondents agreed that the future of software depends on standards. However, the survey also revealed that a number of concerns regarding technology standardization currently exist in the market.

net Fusion PARTNERS WITH AMERICAN ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION

With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Beijing and Brussels, Belgium, AEA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AEA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943.

SGI INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE LINUX VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES

The initiative enables developers to create new advanced visualization applications for Linux, opening new market opportunities that meet the needs of technical, large data, high-performance computing users.

Breaking News

Security

New Check Point InterSpect Safeguards Enterprises
Fortinet Platform Scalable To Multi-Gb Antivirus Performance
IPLocks Launches First Database Security Audit System
Network Associates Launches InfiniStream Network Solution
Netilla Partners With PfN To Provide PEP Solutions
Novell Gives Enterprises Power to Manage User Identities

Platforms

SGI Returns To LinuxWorld With New Altix Models
Appro Unleashes 4U Quad AMD Opteron Processor-Based Servers
Aspen Systems Unveils 1U Itanium 2 Server Solution
MPC Ranked No. 1 For Dual Processor Performance
Penguin Computing Expands Opteron Product Line
PathScale Announces New Compilers For AMD Opteron Processors
Motorola VMEbus Single-Board Computer Breaks 300MBps Barrier

Networking

Alacritech Further Penetrates Asian Market
AlterPoint Enhances Network Configuration Management Solution
ASI SIG Releases Standards-Based Adv. Switching Specification
Cisco Intros Intelligent, Scalable Metro Ethernet Solutions
Packeteer Saves Victoria DSE More Than $2 Million
Procera, Ezyte XML Partner For Web Services Based Switching
SBE, NComm To Deliver Time-To-Market Reducing WAN Solutions
Network Associates Launches Sniffer Portable Lab Series
StarGen Joins ASI SIG

Storage

Linux Data Centers Choose PolyServe

Operating Systems & Middleware

BEA Announces Expanded Linux Offerings
Candle Announces PathWAI Monitor For WebSphere MQ V110
Emic Adds High Availability, Load Balancing To XServe G5
GoAhead Announces Easy-to-Implement HA Software
Group 1 Software Adds Support For SUSE Linux
iWay Earns 'Challenger' Ranking In META Group Evaluation
ObjectWeb Consortium Welcomes MandrakeSoft as a New Member
OSDL Forms Desktop Linux Working Group Initiative
Red Hat Announces Open Source Assurance Program
Trilog Group Introduces FlowBuilder 3.0
Newest Version Of Windows Services For UNIX Available, Free
Critical Software Announces WMPI II Linux

General

Red Hat Executive Joins ObjectWeb Board
Egenera Announces Support For SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8
InfiniCon, Sun Establish Alliance To Address HPTC Market
Linux Veteran Paula Hunter Joins OSDL
TIBCO Co-Founder Indra Mohan Appointed New Enigmatec CEO
Source Cable & Wireless selects Sandvine P2r Management
webMethods Earns Industry Accolades

Quote Of The Week

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